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    Federal Student Loans

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    increase in student-loan defaults happened after the financial crisis of 2008 and how it is going to end as well as identify default prevention initiatives to alleviate high default rates. The resources from the federal student aid data center, the data available through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B) of the U.S. Department of Education can be used for this comparative analysis. Based on comparison of different types of federal student loans

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    Student Loan Debt

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    problem with today’s current level of student loans is that it causes so many people that took out loans to go into debt later on in their life. Now when the former students go into debt, it creates a domino effect. The students going into debt means that the government will be able to get their money paid back to them which causes the country to be buried in an even deeper hole of debt. The nation is currently over 20 trillion dollars in debt and student loan debt is more than 1.5 trillion dollars

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    Subsidized Student Loan

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    Compare your student loan offers by repayment schedules. As a student you may not have the time or energy to pick up a job while you are in college in order to start paying back loans and interest, so knowing which loan lets you defer all payments while you are in school can be helpful. With a subsidized student loan, the interest is not charged until you graduate. It is considered deferred and is subsidized by the federal government. You start paying the principal amount and the interest after you

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    Introduction 40 million Americans owe about $1.2 trillion in student loan debts and roughly 16 percent of those loan balances are in forbearances alone (Delisle). To start with, forbearances allows borrowers to relinquish a delinquency status and postpone payments for up to three years. With that in mind, a majority of borrowers initially believe that forbearances are a good thing because it allows them to have a leeway before they can make their next payment. However, I believe that forbearances

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    i. Student-loan defaults in China In the context of entering the mass higher education stage, the ideology of cost-sharing and equity in higher education is now widely accepted as a must-do in China, and there is a tradeoff in which colleges can charge tuition fees in exchange for better financial aids to students from disadvantaged groups. Thus, implementing a student-loan scheme to ensure educational opportunities for needy students is the primary choice for the Chinese government. Nowadays the

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    Student Loans

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    Student Loans The federal government has the power to cutback the funding of student loans. There are several different ways the government can go about doing this. One way is to keep the amount of each loan the same and reduce the number of loans granted. Another option the government has is to reduce the amount of each loan and issue the same number as in the past. Either way, students that belong to a low-income family will be greatly affected. Cutbacks in the funding of student loans

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    Student Loan Debt

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    There is over $1.2 trillion of student loan debt in the United States.1 Consider these ways to save money before college, rather than burdening yourself with debt afterwards. Get A Clue Research the cost of tuition and fees, room and board, and general living expenses at the schools you are interested in. This will give you a goal to work towards. Remember to include things like books, activity fees, study abroad possibilities, and a calculator and/or computer. Make A Change Cut back on general

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    7 student loan myths debunked When it comes to student loans, there is a lot of information to take in—especially for a new college student who is exploring their financing options for the first time, or a new graduate who has just started paying off their student loan debt. With all of the different information out there, it can be easy to get confused, and perhaps even misunderstand certain things about student loans. The following are some common student loan myths, debunked: Myth #1: I’m not

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    thousand dollars in student loans. (Johnson, “Student Loans”) There is currently a debate about whether or not student loans are a crisis or if this crisis is just a myth. In the article, “Here’s Your Crisis: Student Loan Debt Isn’t A Myth,” it describes how student loans are a huge crisis, and the article, “The Myth of the Student Loan Crisis” is about how college students’ loans do not amount to a crisis. The student loan crisis is a legitimate problem, not a myth. College students do not realize the

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    federal system hands out loans left and right to college students. The problem with this is they loan out so much money that sometimes students cannot pay the money back, now they just lost thousands of dollars. Some students that go to college and major in something that clearly doesn’t have many jobs out, isn’t going to be able to pay back their loans. Federal Systems shouldn’t lend out money like this. The total amount of student loans is $1.2 trillion and rising. Student debt has been rising

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